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Events Quotes


"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."


"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."


"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."


"Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written."


"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."


"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."


"The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events."


"If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them."


"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."


"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."


"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."


"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."


"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."


"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."


"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."



"I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham."


"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."


"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."


"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."


"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."


"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."


"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."


"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."


"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."


"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."


"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."


"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."


"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."


"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."


"I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players."



"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."


"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."


"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."


"I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year."


"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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